Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #354 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Eugene Siegel, Chris Stewart, Bram Cohen, and Robin Linus to discuss Newsletter #353.

News

● Vulnerability disclosure affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core (1:17)

Changing consensus

● Proposed BIP for 64-bit arithmetic in Script (5:28)

● Proposed opcodes for enabling recursive covenants through quines (23:11)

● Description of benefits to BitVM from `OP_CTV` and `OP_CSFS` (36:39)

Releases and release candidates

● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc4 (1:07:28)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32155 (1:08:27)

● Bitcoin Core #28710 (1:09:38)

● Core Lightning #8272 (1:13:28)

● LND #8330 (1:14:09)

● Rust Bitcoin #4458 (1:14:52)

● BIPs #1848 (1:04:33)

● BIPs #1841 (1:16:25)

● BIPs #1821 (1:16:42)